Interview with Rebecca Marie, author of One Month Week Day Hour Minute Second

Abuse knows no boundaries. It doesn’t care if you are rich or poor, old or young. It can enter your life at any time and stay as long as you let it. In One Month Week Day Hour Minute Second, author Rebecca Marie discusses that the key is to release the secrets, talk about the abuse, and take the power away from the abusers.

In this memoir, she shares her personal journey surviving sexual and physical abuse, describing how abusive patterns started at a young age, how negative self-esteem continued to grow, and how it ended in her falling in love with a psychopath.

One Month Week Day Hour Minute Second narrates how Marie was victimized and lived in daily fear and despair, but discusses how she chose not to remain a victim and took power over her own life. Hoping to break the cycle of domestic abuse one victim at a time, Marie tells her emotional story to call attention to the problem of domestic violence. Her story shows there is hope for others.

Question1-
If you could jump into any book and live there, what book would you

chose?

Answer: I
would choose a book from mid-evil times.

Question 2-
Describe your book in a tweet (140 characters or less)

Answer:
Stop domestic violence. Abuse knows no boundaries it does not care if you are
young or old, rich or poor. There is always hope and we all need to be
advocates to put an end to domestic violence.

Question
3-What was the last book you bought, or what book do you look forward to

Question
4-Can you tell us about the moment you decided you were going to write this
particular book?

Answer: In
2000 I managed to finally leave a 10 year abusive marriage and as I was seeking
out help from organizations I found that there was a lack of books specific to
my situation at that time. I decided that I would write my memoir so that my
book could be added to the list of resources available for woman that need to
or had escaped abuse and domestic violence.

Question
5 – Does writing come naturally to you, or do you feel you have to work

harder to
get the ideas to paper?

Answer: I
feel like writing comes more naturally for me now that I have built my confidence
from writing and publishing my own book. I will never take the process for
granted, writing takes a great deal of effort.

Rebecca Marie enjoys being a mentor and her goal in sharing her story is to help others see there is hope.